Mounting for thermometers



June I, 1937. w E HERQLD 2,082,750

MOUNTING FOR THERMOMETERS Filed March 6, 1956 Patented June 1, 1937 UNiTED STATES PATENT OFFICE MOUNTING FOR THERMOMETERS Application March 6, 1936, Serial No. 67,513

4 Claims.

This invention relates to thermometer supports or mounts and more particularly to a portable desk type of mount especially adapted for advertising purposes.

The object of the invention is to provide a mount which is of simple and economical construction which may be manufactured at sufficiently low cost to permit its distribution for advertising purposes, but which will be of attractive appearance and which may be readily adapted for advertising various lines of business.

A further object of the invention is to provide a thermometer mount having a display face to receive advertising matter or other indicia in position for easy observation.

A further object of the invention is to provide an improved means for engaging the thermometer and is enclosing tubular housing with the base.

With the above primary and other incidental objects in view, as will more fully appear in the specification, the invention consists of the features of construction, the parts and combinations thereof, and the mode of operation, or their equivalents, as hereinafter described and set forth in the claims.

In the drawing wherein is shown the preferred but obviously not necessarily the only form of embodiment of the invention, Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a thermometer and support therefor embodying the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view thereof on line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view with the cover sheet removed.

Like parts are indicated by similar characters of reference throughout the several views.

In the present construction, an ordinary thermometer tube I secured to a graduated back 2 is enclosed in a protective glass tube 3 closed at its upper end and supported in upright position on a base 4.

The base 4 is preferably formed of sheet metal but may be of other material and in the particular embodiment illustrated is of substantially rectangular form and has downturned stepped side margins 5. The top of the base comprises a relatively flat portion 6 and an inclined portion 1 disposed in intersecting planes. The inclined face 1 provides a suitable and convenient surface for display of advertising matter.

Located in the flat area 6 of the base is a socket opening 8 having downturned side walls to receive the glass thermometer enclosure tube 3.

The tube 3 is heated in the socket, and its lower end is closed by a stopper 9 of cork or the like which also fits within an opening in the bottom of the socket as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4 and which has therein a transverse slot in which the lower end of the enclosed thermometer back 2 is engaged.

The socket opening 8 is located in offset relation with both the fore and aft and the transverse center lines of the base, or in proximate w relation with one corner thereof. Such disposition of the thermometer and its enclosing tube leaves ample space on the fiat surface area 6 to receive an image or miniature figure l0 of the commodity being advertised. Those thermom- 15 eters employed for advertising flour may have a miniature image shaped as a sack of flour. Likewise thermometers used for advertising the business of an electric motor manufacturer may have an image conforming to the contour of a minia- 20 ture electric motor mounted upon the base beside the thermometer enclosure tube 3. In the present instance the miniature figure of a dog is shown, which thermometer may be used for advertising dog kennels. Likewise other figures, and facsimile reproduction having no particular relation to the advertisement but which may be of general interest or of unique appearance may be employed in lieu of the dog figure shown in the drawing. 30

The interior of the base 4 is preferably filled with successive layers ll of card board having holes therein registering with the downturned walls of the socket opening through which the lower end of the glass tube 3 and the stopper 9 extends. A layer of sheet lead or other heavy material may be substituted for one or more of the card board layers to afiord additional ballast. The ballasting of the base together with the weight of the facsimile image or figure l0 prevents the device from being easily overturned, and further affords sufiicient weight to enable it to be employed as a paper weight. In such event the facsimile image [0 and the upstanding glass tube 3 afford convenient handles by either 45 of which the device may be lifted and moved from place to place.

From the above description it will be apparent that there is thus provided a device of the character described possessing the particular features of advantage before enumerated as desirable, but which obviously is susceptible of modification in its form, proportions, detail construction and arrangement of parts without departing from 55 the principle involved or sacrificing any of its advantages.

While in order to comply with the statute, the invention has been described in language more or less specific as to structural features, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the specific features shown, but that the means and construction herein disclosed comprise the preferred form of several modes of putting the invention into effect, and the invention is therefore claimed many of its forms or modi fications within the legitimate and valid scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. In a self supporting thermometer, a polygonal base portion recessed on its under side, down turned marginal flanges upon which the base rests, flat intersecting horizontal and relatively inclined faces on the top of said base, a circular opening in the horizontal face, substantially cylindrical vertical side walls therefor terminating above the plane of the bottom edges of the down turned marginal flanges, said depression being offset from the middle of the base in proximate relation with one of the side margins thereof leaving space beside the opening for location of an image, a cylindrical glass tube seated in said circular opening, a thermometer tube and a graduated back for the thermometer tube enclosed within the glass tube.

2. In a self-supporting thermometer, a base portion of sheet material, down turned marginal flanges thereon upon which the base stands, a horizontal portion and a relatively inclined portion forming the top of the base, a socket formed in the top of the base, in laterally offset relation with the center line of the base to afford room for a miniature facsimile figure on the base beside the socket, and a cylindrical glass tube enclosing a thermometer tube and graduated back seated in the socket.

3. In a self-supporting thermometer, a base portion of sheet material, down turned marginal flanges thereon upon which the base stands, a

. socket portion carried by the top of the base, in

laterally offset relation with the center line of the base to afiord room for an ancillary body on the base beside the socket, said socket having an opening in the bottom thereof, and a thermometer tube and support therefor seated in the socket, and a member interfitting with said tube and the opening in the bottom of the socket, said thermometer tube being supported by said socket closure.

4. In a self-supporting thermometer, a base portion of sheet material, down turned marginal flanges thereon upon which the base stands, a socket formed in the top of the base, in laterally offset relation with the center line of the base to afiord room for an ancillary body on the base beside the socket, and a cylindrical glass tube enclosing a thermometer tube and graduated back seated in said socket, a closure for the bottom of said cylindrical glass tube, said thermometer tube and graduated back being supported by said closure.

WALTER F. HEROLD. 

